plate-(piston)-type caldera
- plate-(piston)-type caldera
- GLOSSARY OF VOLCANIC TERMS
A type of caldera in which the caldera floor subsides more or less evenly as one coherent block. Plate-(piston)-type calderas are believed to result from single, large volume pyroclastic eruptions from relatively shallow depth magma chambers.
Glossary of volcanic terms. - University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.
G. J. Hudak.
2001.
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